VLVL2 work

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> >Zoyd's (dishonest) way of earning a living?
> 
> I doubt Pynchon would characterize it as "dishonest."

It's dishonest to collect Disability Insurance if you are not disabled. 

Work in VL is dishonest. 

>From Marxist Pigs and The Giving Tree. 

What I am and what I can do is by no means determined by my
individuality. 

I am ugly, but I can buy the most beautiful woman. 

Which means to say that I am not ugly, for the effect of
ugliness, its repelling power, is destroyed by money. As an individual,
I am lame, but money procures me 24 legs. Consequently, I am not lame. I
am a wicked, dishonest, unscrupulous and stupid individual, but money is
respected, and so also is its owner. 

Money is the highest good, and consequently its owner is also good.
Moreover, money spares me the trouble of being dishonest, and I am
therefore presumed to be honest.